United States

Population: 298 million (US Census Bureau estimate, 2006)
Capital: Washington D.C.
Area: 9.8 million sq km (3.8 million sq miles)
Major language: English
Major religion: Christianity
Life expectancy: 75 years (men), 80 years (women) (UN)
Monetary unit: 1 US dollar = 100 cents
New York Times – daily
USA Today – national daily

Road Junky has 39 United States articles. Scroll down to view.

United States Travel Guide Online

The expansive United States is a country that challenges the world traveler to adjust to its scale. Little children in India are told tales that its streets are paved ...

Arrogant American Cops - A Reason to Go Abroad?

I was walking down High Street in Columbus, Ohio with my friend Jeff, a tall, lanky young man with pale skin, a light, scraggly beard and three year’s growth of ...

Living in a Van in America

A flight around the world had changed more than just the culture and climate; it had fundamentally changed the nature of existence. In Asia, I was by some standards wealthy, ...

Fear and Loathing in Denver

Denver to me meant Hunter S. Thompson, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady. It existed in books alone, as brief home of the Beats, and tantalisingly close to ...

Gonzo, Hunter Thompson and the Writer

I went to see Gonzo recently, the new documentary based on the life and work of Hunter S. Thompson, the father of gonzo journalism. Johnny Depp read aloud the ...

The Worst Passenger in the World

On any journey in our lifetime, the first bag we pack is ourselves. Right? At least it’s true in a spiritual sense. But you still have to pack your other ...

Hitchhiking to Los Angeles

Some years ago, I was hitchhiking south on I-5 outside of Ashland, Oregon when I was picked up by a woman in her late 20s and her four-year-old daughter. They ...

Mexicano in the Hamptons, New York

To the owner of an American flag which was stolen on the fifth of July 2004 outside a bar in South Hampton my deepest apology. I can imagine one cheerful ...

Dressed Like a Hooker and Stranded in the Bronx

Having blown all my cheese on booze, I had no choice but to trust the rappers. They weren’t rappers exactly, they were “Talent Agents” for Slim Shady records and ...

It's Official, North Korea is No Longer 'Evil'

This week the Bush administration, in all its wisdom, decided to remove North Korea from its Axis of Evil shit list. Iraq, the primary target on the list has ...

Canvassing and Loathing in Suburban Ohio

It’s a strange, hellish place, an American suburb on a Midwestern winter night. I walked calmly past yet another mailbox, exactly like the last and the 10 others before it ...

About to Drive From the US to Costa Rica

People keep telling me it’s suicide. They insist that I’ll be kidnapped or encounter a gang of carjackers or rot in jail after cops frame me with a bag ...

Editorial - Road Junky Backhandedly Endorses Barack Obama

Our phones just haven’t stopping ringing for months now and we’ve decided it’s time for us to take a stand. The political pressure, the lobbying and our responsibility to our ...

9/11 Revisited - Who Really Pays the Price

Rumsfeld choked back the tears, McCain and Obama call a political ceasefire and 7 years on, Americans remembered the day that they became ‘acquainted with the night’, in the words ...

Recession Travel for Americans

The glory days of international travel for Americans who sling dollars around like they’re going out of style are rapidly disappearing. Rising oil prices have driven the prices of flights ...

Travel to Mental Institutions Risking Mesothelioma

Drifting through a maze of dark foreboding hallways covered in giant plastic tarps, I struggled to breathe through my respirator as if I were some poor-man’s version of Darth Vader ...

Dazed in New Orleans

I hunker down on the street in the real early morning light and pan my video camera 180 degrees. ‘This end of the street, the artists walk their poodles,’ I ...

Work in California Clipping Marijuana

Given the frothing nature of America’s war on drugs- conducted with righteous fervour by every president since Ronald Reagan, it was, all in all, a strange move for California ...

Junkies enjoy Man vs. Wild

What? A TV program mentioned on Road Junky?

And you thought we’d be too busy wallowing in holes in 3rd world countries to watch TV!

It turns out that in ...

USA Travel in a Van

My van is my lifeline. “Pearl” is not only my transportation, she is also my bedroom, my kitchen, my protection from the elements and my mental security. Fortunately, she can ...